Synopsis:
- The phenomena of the world vary in degree of self-consciousness, from the rocks (will is completely unconscious) to humans (will is conscious)
- The universe is moving towards a higher consciousness of itself
- The world is created by a universal will that strives to manifest itself (the world is that manifestation)
- Dualism creates oppositions of mind/matter, good/evil, subject/object, etc which make philosophical problems insoluble
- Objective idealism: underlying unity of nature
- equilibrium of forces
- Consciousness is the product of unconscious forces
- There is an "unprethinkable" being that precedes all thought and is the condition of thought
- Nature precedes Spirit
- The process of self-organization is the primary creator of reality
- Consciousness emerges from unconscious matter through stages of self-organization
- All that exists is continuously being redefined by the process of self-organization
- The process of self-organization is fundamentally a process of "limiting" (a generalization of Fichte's limiting activity)
- Living organisms interact with the environment to continuously reorganize themselves
- Eventually "Spirit" emerges, that has both self-consciousness and free will
- Emergence is a process of constraining activity
- All languages derive from a mother language
- All myths derive from one primordial mythology
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